owner of /etc /boot and / (related to can't su thread???)

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Fri Jul 8 14:06:06 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 08:17 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

> They *have* to be root ownership? What is there which will not function
> if they are not root ownership?

Stuff with the suid bit comes to mind - that bit says to run it as if
the owner of the file was running it. Since that owner is no longer
root, it will not run as root - and therefore fail.

When you mess up that big - unless you have a way to restore all
permissions, it really is best to reinstall.




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